Control panel and power control for vehicle door instrumentalities



March 11, 1941. F, COOLEY CONTROL PANEL AND POWER CONTROL FOR VEHICLE DOOR iNSTRUMENTALITIES Filed Jui 5, 1938 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR. Floyd A. 000283 6% @xw v isY ORNEYS CONTROL PANEL AND POWER CONTROL FOR VEHICLE DOOR INSTRUMENTALITIES Filed July 5, 1938 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 I-NVENTOR. BY FZqz 14000261 9L ATTORNEYS March 11, 19 41. V CQQLEY 2,234,426 CONTROL PANEL AND POWER CONTROL FOR VEHICLE DOOR INSTRUMENTALITIES' Filed July 5, 1938 4 Sheets-Sheet 3 IO 3 A.

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March 11, 1941.

CONTROL PANEL AND POWER CONTROL FOR VEHICLE DOOR INSTRUMENTALITIES F. A. COOLEY 2,234,426

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INVENTOR.

ATTORNEYS.

Patented 11, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT .All autom by remote control handles.

OFFICE CONTROL PANEL AND P TROL FOR MENTAIJTIES Floyd A. Cooley,

OWER CON VEHICLE DOOR INSTRU- Detroit, Mich., assignor to Ternstedt Manufact Company, De-

1 Claim.

obile doors are now operated- The grouping and threedifierent handles on an somewhat of a problem. They have to beconveniently located to be easily reached. The door lock handle should be located so that it can be used as a pull-to handle,

if possible, and the regulator handles have to to the apparatus which in view of all the factors.

It is the object of the present invention to provide vices by which all the aid of power, p

,pletely does away a group panel which contain control deof these instrumentalities may be separately operated from a remote point by referably hydraulic. This com- With this panel control,

the control buttons can be located anywhere that the reach and it is in no way reason of having to be contiguous to the instrumentality which they control. Furthermore, the button control does away with hand manipulation of luxury to the operation talities contained in a door.

In the drawings and gives a real touch of all the instrumen- Fig. l is an inside elevation of an automobile door with part of the the control panel. Fig. 2 is a diag ratus.

Fig. 3 is a Fig. 4 is a Fig. 5 is a Fig. 6 is a Fig. 7 is a top for the four valve panels.

panel broken away to show rammatic layout of the appasection on the line a 3 of Fig. 1. section onv the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

showing the control elevation of the valve casing s that control the two window Fig. 8 is a rear elevationof the same.

Fig. 9 is a section on the line 99 of Fig.7.

Fig. 10 is a secti on on the line I'lll0 of Fig. 8.

no draft" Bowlus Patent No. 2,039,873.

l is the vertical sliding window of the Fisher setup and 2 is the swinging panel or wind wing. The sliding panel is operated by the swinging arm 3, together with an auxiliary arm 4 which has an X relation with the swinging arm. The ends of the auxiliary arm are provided with lift pinsone.pin 5 traveling in the guide 6 and the other pin 1 traveling in the window bracket guide 8. This is a cross arm regulator that is already described and claimed in the Graf Patent No. 2,010,075 and the Lakin et a1. Patent No. 1,392,731. The wind wing 2 is operated by a pinion 9 operated by attack I 0-" (see Figs. 3 and 4). The coach lock H is not shown in detail but is preferably of such a semi-freewheeling lock as is shown and described in the Andersen and Now, refer to Fig. 2:'A vane pump 53 is driven by the motor of the car. Or, when the motor is not running, the foot pump M may be used to force oil up through the line 55 and thence either to the regulator valve casing 66 or the lock valve casing ll. By following the piping leading out of casing IE, it will be seen that, by pressing button 45, the hydraulic pressure may be passed through line id to the left hand side of cylinder I9 to force the piston to the right, thereby pulling the rack III to the right and rotating the wind wing 2 clockwise. This closes the wind wing. By operating the other valve 60, the oil pressure is sent through conduit 2| to the right hand end of piston 20 to open the wind wing. The wind wing, of course, will stop in its opening movement the instant the pressure is released on the valve.

Likewise, pressure on the right hand valve button 23 sends the pressure-through conduit 24 to cylinder 25 and to theleft of piston operate the window regulator arm 3 to raise the sliding window. Pressure on button 21 sends the pressure to the right hand side of piston 26 to lower the regulator arm 3 to the position shown in Fig. 2.

Pressure on the button 28 sends the oil or hydraulic fluid through conduit 29 to the right, returning piston 30, to retract the lock bolt 3|. The spring 32 will return the piston as soon as the button is released.

Now,- turning to Figs. 5 and 6, the valve arrangement for the remote control of the lock will be described. Oil comes in through conduit 33. When button 28 is depressed, the exhaust valve 34 closes passage 36 .and opens the intake valve 35. Oil passes from conduit 33 to conduit 29. When the button is released, the spring immediately returns the piston to the right hand position. The oil is forced back to conduit 29, thence through passageway 36 and into the left hand end of the lockcontrol cylinder. During the passage of oil from conduit 33 through passage 29 to the right of piston 30, left end side of the piston 30 is forced out around valve 34 and out through conduit 31.

Referring to Figs. 7-10 inclusive, the operation of the two valves that control the regulators can be described. Oil, under pressure, comes through the conduit 39. Suppose that the right hand valve 44 in Fig. 10 is opened, this will .mean the button 45 in Fig. '7.

pressing on of the left hand This admits the pressure through passageway 40, branch 42, around valve 44, thence through port 46, out passageway 41 and pipe l8 to the left hand end of cylinder [9. The oil at the right hand end of the cylinder has been exhausted through pipe 2| back through passageway 18, thence up through passageway 49 and the vertical passage 50. The exhaust valve 5| is open and the returning oil passes into the vertical passageway 52, then through passageway 53 and out pipe 54 and then through the return pipe 38 to the pump.

When button 55 is depressed, it lets fluid come through passageway 56 (Fig. 8), through passage I8 and thence out pipe 2| which leads to the right of the piston 20. The oil in front of the piston will pass down through pipe l8 and enters port 41 (Fig. 9), passesthrough passageway 51 and then out around the exhaust valve 58 into passageway 52 and out 53 to return pipe 54.

The other two buttons 23 and 21, operating in connection with the pipes 24 and 24a, work the same way. So, it is not necessary to describe the oil on the them nor show the specific passages, as this would only clutter up the drawings and one would have more dimculty in tracing the transmission lines.

Both-the sliding window and the ventilating window will be positively locked in any position of adjustment by the presence of hydraulic fluid on both sides of the pistons controlling'these members.

g I have referred to the circuit for the hydraulic devices as a panel plate" but this should be given a broad signification as, obviously, the devices themselves might be grouped in any given location on the inside panel of the door. I want the signification of the words panel. plate to be broad enough to cover such an obvious modiflcation.

I claim:

A power instrument installation for automobile doors comprising a. unit panel, means for removably securing the panel in a door, a plurality of fluid operated pistons and cylinders located on the panel and for connection with and power operation of devices in the door such as window regulators for window panels, locks, etc. and one or more control panels having pipe connections with the fluid cylinders and located at any desired position with respect to the unit panel and carrying on the inside valves for the fluid pipes to selectively control'the operation of the pistons in the fluid cylinders and thereby control the instrumentalities on the door operated by the same, said valves being controlled by push buttons on the outside of the control panel and arranged to be substantially flush with the inside face of the door, when the control panel is in place.

FLOYD A. COOLEY. 

